Ubuntu
etckeeper package

add cups/printer.conf* to .gitignore?

Bug #1434428 reported by Rolf Leggewie on 2015-03-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #511297: /etc/cups/printers.conf timestamp is pointlessly updated. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	etckeeper	Unknown	Unknown	debbugs #568090
	etckeeper (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

cups/printer.conf and its backup cups/printer.conf.0 are dynamically-created files. They are updated more than once daily on my system. Shouldn't they be added to .gitignore? Am I overlooking any possible problem?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-04-08:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in etckeeper (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Vicky Dahlke (vicky-dahlke) wrote on 2015-04-08:

Actually it is
cups/printers.conf
cups/printers.conf.O
(with s).

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Martin Günther (launchpad-domain-the-phoenix) wrote on 2015-04-11:

Already discussed here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568090

They shouldn't be added to the default .gitignore, because they are real configuration files. Instead, cups shouldn't keep updating the date in that file. If a user wishes, they can manually put that file into their .gitignore.

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Martin Günther (launchpad-domain-the-phoenix) wrote on 2015-04-11:

Related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/511297

Peter J. Mello (roguescholar) on 2020-01-14